Windows 8 - reminders

This blog post will be a working document to remind me about the features and processes that come with Microsoft Windows 8.

Apps side by side

In order to snap Apps you will need a resolution of at least 1366x768.

It might be useful to have two apps on the display at once. Windows 8 handles this as part of the OS, and the way it works is revolutionary. With one app on the display, you simply swipe in from the side and "pull" the other app onto the screen from the left. You can drag it until the app display is as big as desired, and "drop" it alongside the original app. You are then free to reference material in one app while working in the other.

Example:
So you could have Internet Explorer open and Bing which was previously opened dragged in from the left side.The searches in Bing auotmatically get displayed in Internet Explorer.

Key Stokes
Cycling through open Windows back to the "Modern" UI can be achived by pressing the Windows Key.


Applications

Defender: Windows 8 includes a version of Security Essentials (Microsofts Antivirus and Anti-malware product) but now includes it under the application name of Defender.

Hyper-V: To run Hyper-V, a PC must not only run the 64-bit version of Windows 8, its CPU must also support a virtualization technology called Second Level Address Translation (aka SLAT) which, is present in the current generation of 64-bit processors by Intel and AMD, along with at least 4GB of RAM.

You can check the status of your CPUs by downloading the latest version of Mark Russinovich’s coreinfo.exe utility from the Microsoft Sysinternals Web pages, then launching the utility from a command line launched with administrative privileges.

run coreinfo -v

The key entries in this display are the EPT (Extended Page Tables) for Intel processors, and a value in the AMD processor output that may appear as NPT (Nested Page Tables) or RVI (Rapid Virtualization Indexing). Simply put, one of these values must be enabled for Windows 8 Hyper-V to work.

To enable audio in the Hyper-V guest - you will need to connect using RDP (Assuming the host RDP computer has an audio card.) - remember to enable Remote Desktop on the guest and ensure the firewall allows RDP traffic.